Few who saw Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai – the 17-year-old Pakistani girl who was nearly killed by the Taliban and who then went on to become an activist for female education – finger-wagging about the frivolousness of social media will
A spate of new Senate projections shows Republicans widening the electoral map and increasing their chances of a GOP takeover. On Monday, the The Washington Post‘s Election Lab forecast showed Republicans with a 94% chance of winning the Senate and
A top Democratic pollster thinks Hispanic voters may sit out the 2014 midterm elections because President Barack Obama did not enact his executive amnesty by the end of the summer. Pollster Celinda Lake told The Hill that Democrats face “a big uphill
Jose Antonio Vargas, who has said he is the “most privileged” illegal immigrant in America, may get an Oscar nomination and is reportedly working on a new film about “whiteness.” According to the Hollywood Reporter, Vargas’s film, Documented, which chronicles his
Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown told the New York Times that the best and only place for Democrats to deploy President Barack Obama heading into the midterm elections is with black voters. “I’d have Obama on an evangelistic schedule
Of all the examples of incompetence and failure to protect Americans that the Obama Administration has displayed, its failure to keep Ebola out of our country may be the worst. Obama’s number-one job is to keep dangerous people from coming
The first trailer for Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper has been released by Warner Bros. American Sniper is an adaptation of the New York Times best seller American Sniper: The Autobiography of the most Lethal Sniper In U.S. Military History, which was
The New York Times reported on Saturday that Dublin, Ohio residents are so worried their town’s young people may “succumb to the Islamic State’s savvy social media appeal to join its fight on the battlefields in Iraq and Syria” that
Sierra Leone remains one of the west African nations hardest hit by the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the region. To emphasize the scale of the operation the Leonean government has undertaken to attempt to stop the virus in its tracks,
On Friday’s “NewsHour” on PBS, New York Times columnist David Brooks dismissed the notion that President Barack Obama deserves credit and/or blame for the condition of the U.S. economy. Brooks said there were too many variables in an economy for
The media celebrated Friday as the Department of Labor announced a “surge of hiring” – 248,000 new jobs added in September. The unemployment rate has now dropped to 5.9 percent. The Labor Department also revised upward the jobs numbers from July and
Thomas Eric Duncan, the 42-year-old Liberian citizen identified as the first person to be diagnosed with the Ebola virus on American soil, was vomiting upon arriving at the Texas hospital that initially let him go with antibiotics, according to a
According to FBI crime statistics and the bureau’s recent study on “active shooter” incidents (ACIs) in the US, far more people are murdered with fire than are killed in mass shootings. Moreover, the number of people killed each year with
Death statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) coupled with crime statistics from the FBI show that bicycle and falling deaths far exceed deaths from “mass shootings.” For example, on September 24 the FBI released a study
Though Alison Lundergan Grimes continues to trail in recent polls, Democrats are doubling down on their ad spending to prop up her faltering challenge to incumbent Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the Kentucky U.S. Senate race. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign
After weeks of rumors, The New York Times announced Wednesday that more than 100 newsroom jobs will be slashed, as “well as a smaller number of positions from its editorial and business operations[.]” If enough people don’t accept buyouts, the
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement and the iconic speech delivered by Mario Savio from the top of a police car in Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley. The vibrant crusader for free
On Tuesday, The New York Times ran a lengthy piece ripping Israel for supposedly hiding its Israeli Arab population. Pointing out that Israel’s population authority originally left the top baby name in Israel – Muhammad – off its pre-Rosh Hashana
There apparently is not a huge market for boring numbers geeks and their stats, stats, stats, stats, stats, and data, data, data, data, data. When ESPN nabbed Nate Silver from the New York Times, political elites and those in the
Noted Ronald Reagan historian Craig Shirley has doubled down on his plagiarism charge against liberal author Rick Perlstein. Shirley accused Perlstein of improperly citing or entirely failing to cite Shirley’s 2005 book, Reagan’s Revolution, in his new book, The Invisible
The supposed standard for child custody in family courts is the “best interest of the child.” The Vermont supreme court has now extended that to the best interest of the dog. Daniel and Laura were divorcing, and the issue before
Would the New York Times be outraged by a black mayor being elected to lead a predominantly white city? In a front-page article Monday, “Mostly Black Cities, Mostly White City Halls,” the Gray Lady presents the persistence of white political leadership
On Tuesday’s “New Day” on CNN during the “Inside Politics” segment, National Journal’s Ron Fournier reacted to the rumbling that former Gov. Mitt Romney (R-MA), the 2012 Republican presidential nominee will run again for a third time for president in
Sierra Leone’s largest newspaper, the Awareness Times, is reporting with alarm that at least 1,028 Ebola patients appear to be missing in the country, as official Ministry of Health statistics account for a smaller number of combined victims and survivors
President Obama made clear to the nation last night that, to him, the rise of the Islamic State in Syria and, particularly, Iraq, was an intelligence failure, not a military failure– and certainly not an Obama failure. “Our head of
